Month: December 2011

The Long Tail is Chris Anderson’s brilliant coinage. If you’re not up to speed on it, here you go. Well, the long tail has hit the book business, and hard. The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily. That’s more than 8 times as many books as were published…

This is the wrong question. The right question is: How much will an ebook cost? Because the answer isn’t up to one author or one publisher or even a price-fixing cartel. It’s up to the market, which is a far more complicated entity. There are no shoulds in the market, just reality. On one hand,…

When anyone can publish a book, anyone will. Including people who will collect up public domain articles, paste them into Word and hit publish. And people who will use keywords to trick you into thinking a book is about something it isn’t. Of course, there have been counterfeit handbags for sale on the streets of…

It’s not the struggling artists, it’s corporations, lawyers and boards who are in favor of such a shortsighted law . Here’s the list of companies behind one of the lobbying groups pushing for SOPA (here are three links about the law). Now you know who to call: ABC AFTRA – American Federation of Television and…

Amazon just released their list of the top-selling 100 books of 2011. Thanks to you, Poke the Box came in around 65 on the list, which was led by Steve Jobs, filled with fiction and the occasional kid’s book. It’s on sale right now for $5 in hardcover, but not sure for how long. The…